A Revolution Betrayed

A clip with a speech my jailed reformist Mohsen Mirdamadi about how the Revolution was betrayed.



Here is an English Summary:

This was not our promise has made a connection between the post-election bitter truth and Mirdamadis comments, and has created a moving scene. In the opening ceremony of Participation Front (Reformist) Symposium, Mirdamadi had said: It was not supposed that we just raised our voices and cried tears of regret to say there is no freedom in the United States or in Europe but completely forget the basic and human rights of our Iranian citizens. Our system was supposed to be Islamic Republic and a Republic similar to what exists in other countries. The nations vote was supposed to be the scale not that some decide instead of the nation and in the name of the nation, and hold their control so tight that even the pioneers of the revolution and the holly defense (the eight year defense against Iraqs invasion) become disqualified.

It was not supposed that in the Islamic Republic establishment, faith, morality and national unity of Iranian society are weakened and freedom, democracy, human rights, logic, progress and all that is linked to the modern world and successful experiences of the mankind get forgotten. Dr. Mohsen Mirdamadi, the energetic and full of life man who 30 years ago was at the front line for making progress in the revolution, is now at the front line of the court as the defendant. Maybe he never thought that one day they would make him sit with pajamas and slippers in a court room to humiliate him. Maybe he never thought that one day he would be accused of trying to overthrow the same revolution that from his youth he suffered to strengthen. Surely he never thought of it...